Sakharov Center Moscow, with support from the ASF and its members, including Cathy Fitzpatrick, launched the virtual museum of Andrei Sakharov:
Sakharov.space is a virtual museum of Andrei Sakharov, dedicated to the centenary of the great scientist and human rights activist. The design of the museum resembles a pyramid: a visitor can watch a 7-minute video about Sakharov’s personality, or dive into a 30-minute animated timeline about his life.
For the website, we created a 3D imagery of Sakharov and implemented it using WebGL technology. The archive images helped us make the features of the 3D model similar to real Sakharov ones. Then we animated it recreating the atmosphere of an old movie.
9 chapters, hundreds of photos, rare archival documents and shots: we have combined all these into a beautiful story, united by visual metaphors. For the first time, E. G. Bonner’s speech at the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Sakharov will be available on the Internet.
The website is adaptive and is fully available on all mobile devices.